DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2019 DEALS OF THE HOME IS WHERE $DAY$ THE ART IS PG. 3 DEALS OF THE Todd Baldwin $DAY$ PG. 3 Saugus hires an DEALS OF THE engineer ITEM FILE PHOTO Jessie Benton $FremontDAY$ spent her summer vacationsPG. 3 at a By Bridget Turcotte house on Willow Road in the ITEM STAFF 1860s. The owner of that house, SAUGUS — The town Molly Conlin, played the part of hired an engineer to study Jessie Benton Fremont in her and analyze the town’s in- living room at an annual Wom- frastructure. an’s Club meeting.DEALS Todd Baldwin has been OF THE appointed town engineer, a position created in 2018 ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Nahant$ club$ to work with the Depart- From the back of a pick-up truck artist Michael Aghahowa speaks to the DAY ment of Public Works and crowd gathered in the Andrew Street Parking Lot about the meaning PG. 3 Planning Department to behind his mural that he painted on the wall of Zimman’s as part of the ‘stronger coordinate projects and 2019 Beyond Walls Street Art Festival. look at plans submitted by prospective developers By Bella diGrazia residents and we worked on the idea for to streamline the process. ITEM STAFF this piece together at the Gregg House, than ever’ Town Meeting approved where I basically grew up as a kid,” said $80,000 to fund the sala- LYNN — Lynn native Michael Agha- Aghahowa. “We’d always have conversa- ry of a town engineer in howa paints a bigger picture with his tions about the developments going up in at 125 2018, but Baldwin is the mural on Andrew Street. Lynn and how we don’t think they’re very rst to be hired in the role. The wall art, located behind Zimman’s inclusive to the people who actually live By Bridget Turcotte ITEM STAFF His contract was not im- Inc. in downtown, depicts nine Lynn here … Some days a few of them came in mediately made available students standing in front of what they all upset saying their parents can’t afford NAHANT — The Nahant Woman’s to The Item. believe their childhood homes look like, where they live anymore and they have Club is continuing its mission to “pro- Other communities said Aghahowa. The 25-year-old Lynn to move and leave Gregg House.” mote the literacy and social better- sometimes have multiple Tech alumnus created the piece for Be- “They’re such a young age group,” he ment of the ladies of the village” in its engineers, and given the yond Walls’ 2019 Mural Festival in col- added. “I don’t think they can fully grasp 125th year. amount of recent develop- laboration with a group of his students it all or why it’s happening.” Sunday, the club will raise money ment in the town, Saugus from Gregg Neighborhood House, where Aghahowa is all for development, he for local and overseas organizations it he runs several art workshops. supports through a clam and lobster ENGINEER, A3 “All of the kids on the wall are Lynn AGHAHOWA, A3 bake. In keeping with its original mission to focus on nonpro ts that advocate for women and children, proceeds Developer pulls plug on from the event will go to Girls Inc. of Lynn, North Shore Community College’s Stop Hunger on Campus Peabody hospital plan program, Women for Woman Interna- tional, Montserrat Food Pantry, Puer- to Rico Hurricane Fund, and the Hope By Thomas Grillo In a statement, Chow said “fol- Uganda Project. Two $2,500 scholar- ITEM STAFF lowing Wednesday’s neighbor ships will also be funded. meeting and at the urging of “The club is celebrating its 125th PEABODY — A Boston devel- Ward 4 Councilor Edward Cha- oper has dropped a controversial year and we are going stronger than rest, we have decided to with- proposal to replace the former ever,” said president Cheryl Conte. draw our proposal to further J.B. Thomas Hospital campus In 2008, unof cial town historian with an over-55 community. evaluate the potential develop- Calantha Sears researched the club’s The decision by Hemisphere ment of this property ...We will origins for a lecture on the women of Development Group late Friday continue to look at all of our op- Nahant. She learned Woman’s Club comes less than 48 hours after tions for the site over the coming formed in 1895 with a small group residents packed City Hall to op- weeks and months.” at the home of Sophilia Wilson at 80 pose redevelopment of the closed Hemisphere Development Spring Road. A member of the club AP FILE PHOTO medical facility on King Street bought the two- and three-story still lives in the home today. In this Nov. 24, 1963 le photo, Lee Harvey Os- into 110 condominiums. brick facility in 2017 for $1.9 mil- Wilson became the club’s rst presi- wald reacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Al Chow, Hemisphere’s senior lion from Curahealth Property dent and was considered the rst lady Ruby shoots him in a corridor of Dallas police manager, and Public Strategy LLC. The health care provider of the town, which had a population headquarters. At left is Detective Jim Leavelle, Group, his public relations com- operated the 50-bed facility for a of 883. At the time, Nahant had 334 pany, did not return calls seek- who was captured in one of history’s most icon- DEVELOPER, A3 125TH YEAR, A3 ic photographs as he escorted President John ing comment. F. Kennedy’s assassin. Leavelle is dead at 99. Lawman in iconic Behind the Oswald photo dead scissors for By David Warren ening as nightclub owner 60 years ASSOCIATED PRESS Jack Ruby shot the hand- cuffed presidential assas- DALLAS — Jim sin at close range on live By Thor Jourgensen Leavelle, the longtime TV in 1963. Leavelle ap- ITEM STAFF Dallas lawman who was pears shocked as Oswald LYNN — In Sam’s Barber captured in one of history’s grimaces in pain. Shop, the jokes and insults y most iconic photographs Leavelle’s daughter Tan- as he escorted President ya Evers told The Associ- freely and hair, cut with more John F. Kennedy’s assas- ated Press her father died and more frequency from sin as he was fatally shot, Thursday while visiting aged heads, drifts to the oor. has died. He was 99. her sister in Colorado. He Paul Boghosian cuts hair Leavelle, distinctive in fell earlier this week and and holds court in his shop his light-colored suit and broke his hip, requiring from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. white Stetson, is seen in surgery at a Denver hos- Tuesday through Saturday the photograph with his pital, Evers said Friday. and on Sunday, Sept 1, the hand on Lee Harvey Os- He responded well to the 79-year-old marks 60 years wald, Leavelle’s body stiff- surgery, she said, but then spent snipping and combing. “I really enjoy it. I’ve done LEAVELLE, A3 it for so long. Physically, I can’t cut kids’ hair anymore. But old guys will sit all day and talk,” said Boghosian. INSIDE Sam’s has two well-used ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK barber chairs but Boghosian only needs one: Fellow barber Opinion LOOK! Sports Paul Boghosian, owner of Sam’s Barber Shop, cuts the hair of Mr. Unions driving Lana Del Rey Swampscott Paul Cardile cut hair for 25 North Shore’s drops dreamy gears up for Specs owner Al Piccole. Boghosian is celebrating 60 years of cutting resurgence. A4 new album. A8 new season. B1 hair on Sept. 1. BARBER, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 COMMUNITY CALENDAR ............A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 78° VOL. 141, ISSUE 225 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ...............................B7 LOW 57° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2019 OBITUARIES John I. Gaythwaite, 102 Donald F. Bessom Sr., 69 1917-2019 1950 – 2019 John Ingham Gaythwaite LYNN – Donald Francis Bes- was born in West Lynn, MA to som, Sr., 69, of Peabody, for- William Gaythwaite and Annis merly of Lynn, passed away on Oxley on 3 August 1917. He Tuesday, August 27th 2019. married Doris Rich in 1943 Born in West Lynn, Don was and following the end of WWII the beloved son of the late they built their home in Lyn- Frank S. Bessom, Jr. and Eliza- neld, MA where they resided beth S. (Clement) Bessom. for 60 years and raised two Don was the loving father sons, John W. and Gary G. of Donald F. Bessom, Jr. , Cas- Gaythwaite. John and Doris sia Gilroy and her husband, AP FILE PHOTO moved to Brooksby Village, Joseph, all of Salisbury and Peabody, MA in 2005 and Do- the late Michael Guerriero; Family and friends who have lost loved ones to ris died in 2011 after 68 years dear brother of Robert Bes- OxyContin and opioid overdoses protest outside of harmonious and loving som and wife, Lucia of Venice, Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn. marriage. John died peaceful- FL, Sr. Linda Bessom, SND of ly on 29 August 2019 at the Somerville, Joanne Bessom of age of 102 and will be sorely Middleton, John Bessom and Some states, towns are missed by his many friends Mary Bessom, both of Danvers; and family members. their annual football games the former husband of Marilyn his fellow classical rams at his skeptical over proposed John grew up in West Lynn for many years.