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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018 STEVE KRAUSE COMMENTARY Saugus What’s social in a worker (stadium) denies sex name? traf cking Thanksgiving, and the mind thinks immediately By Bridget Turcotte of … the Works Projects ITEM STAFF Administration? Well … yes. BOSTON — A Saugus group The WPA was one of the home worker pleaded not guilty programs that helped the to charges of traf cking a minor United States dig its way for sexual servitude and contrib- out of the Great Depres- uting to the delinquency of a mi- sion of the 1930s. nor in Suffolk Superior Court. What that did was Ashley Goodrich, 27, of Lynn, allow unemployed people was arraigned Monday and re- with the requisite skills leased on personal recognizance, to work on municipal according to Emalie Gainey, projects. Obviously, this spokeswoman for Massachusetts served the dual purpose Attorney General Maura Healey. of helping people who Goodrich was indicted by a had been hit hard by the Statewide Grand Jury in Sep- economic downturn and tember on four counts of traf ck- adding vitality to cities ing a minor for sexual servitude, and towns. deriving support from prostitu- The reason the WPA tion of a minor, and four counts springs to mind every of contributing to the delinquen- Thanksgiving is that one cy of a minor in connection with of the focal points of my traf cking a minor for commer- childhood holidays — cial sexual exploitation. Manning Bowl — was Goodrich worked at Eliot Com- one of the structures built munity Human Services, where thanks to WPA labor. So the victim lived. She allegedly was Fraser Field. THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR: targeted and recruited the mi- There’s history behind nor while working at the group both the names, and residence, a home for minors re- this is the topic of to- STOP THE VIOLENCE ferred from the Department of day’s tome. Did you ever Children and Families (DCF) to wonder how the stadium By Gayla Cawley sell drugs. Her mother got into trouble Ebony White, provide congregate care for ad- you’ll visit Thursday got ITEM STAFF along with him. Her parents went to jail the assistant olescents and was operated by its name? when she was in fth grade and didn’t director of Eliot in Saugus. LYNN — Go to school. Stay in school. We’ll start with the get released until she was a senior in Youth Ser- Goodrich allegedly posted ads Stay out of trouble. Gemini twins of stadia: high school, leaving her to be raised by vices at Cen- online offering sexual services That was the message delivered to an Manning Bowl and Fras- her grandmother. terboard, in exchange for money. Author- assembly hall of Breed Middle School ities allege she drove the minor er Field. “Nobody knew what I was dealing speaks to students Tuesday morning at a Stop to these sexual encounters in J. Fred Manning was with at home,” White said. “School was students at mayor of Lynn when the the Violence event, sponsored by Lynn Boston and Worcester and coor- always No. 1. No matter what I was Breed Middle Great Depression began, Youth Street Advocacy. dinated them during times when going through, I would always come to and construction of a new Founded in 2014, the mission of the School during the minor had run away from WPA municipal stadium organization is to steer the city’s youth school every day and get good grades the Stop the the home. was begun at his behest. away from violence. and knew that I was going to college. I Violence The Attorney General’s Victim Even before the bowl Saddled with the burden of grow- made that my goal.” speaker series Services Division is working to was complete, the rst ing up with two parents in jail, Ebony Basketball became her outlet. She on Tuesday. ensure the victim has the needed of cial athletic event White could have chosen to go down the played as a student at Breed Middle assistance and services, accord- played there was in 1937 wrong path. Instead she chose to work School and all four years at Lynn Voca- ITEM PHOTO | ing to a statement from Healey. with the Classical-En- hard, graduate from college, and chan- tional Technical Institute. During high SPENSER HASAK The group home in Saugus has glish Thanksgiving foot- nel her challenges into a career working school, she met girls on the team who since been closed and Goodrich ball game. The stadium with at-risk youth in the city. was completed in June As a child, White said her father would VIOLENCE, A3 TRAFFICKING, A3 of 1938 and named for Manning. Football luminary Har- ry Agganis put the bowl on the map during his Saugus students illustrious career at Lynn Classical nearly a decade receive a Healthy start later. It was also the site of the 1966 Rolling Stones concert asco in which By Bridget Turcotte the weekends and during other police used tear gas to ITEM STAFF school breaks. The program is run by Whit- quell a crowd that got SAUGUS — A program that unruly when the group sons Food Services, the School provides students and their left the stage during a Department’s current food families with groceries weekly rainstorm. service provider, and a group is off the ground just in time for In 2004 it was razed of volunteers. It is becoming and subsequently con- the holidays, and donors are be- increasingly important as the demned after being ginning to step up to support it. number of economically disad- declared unsafe. A new “Food should not be the reason vantaged families in the public facility stands in its a child can’t focus in school, but school system is going up, said place, this one renamed it happens,” said Superinten- DeRuosi. Manning Field. dent of Saugus Public Schools “There are a lot of people in Fraser, completed in Saberia Bosak Dr. David DeRuosi. “Imagine need right now,” said DeRuosi 1940, was named for holds $400 (having) anxiety about food, in an interview Monday after- Eugene Fraser, a Lynn worth of gift shelter, warmth, and protection. noon. “There are mixed mes- city councilor and an certi cates What we consider basic com- sages, because more people are early pioneer and a - that she is do- forts are lacking today.” working but they’re living pay- cionado of amateur and nating to hun- The Healthy Students, check to paycheck and food in- minor-league baseball in gry students Healthy Saugus program pro- security is real.” the city. at Saugus vides a weekend supply of nutri- About 47 percent of Saugus Manning will be the site High School. tious food for each eligible child elementary school students of two games this year: when free and reduced-price are considered economically ITEM PHOTO | school lunches and breakfasts STADIUMS, A3 OWEN O’ROURKE are not available to them on STUDENTS, A3 Michelle Obama, meet the girls from Lynn INSIDE By Bella diGrazia “Getting that call was very exciting and The varied groups of young women found Lynn ITEM STAFF surreal,” said Erika Rodriguez, Chica Proj- out they were going to meet their idol after School committee ect’s interim executive director. “It was a mo- Rodriguez told them, with a camera record- signs contract with The Chica Project, a local nonpro t dedicat- ment to re ect on all the work we have done ing right behind her, she said. The Michelle new secretary. A2 ed to closing the opportunity divide for Lati- as an organization.” Obama Foundation asked The Chica Project State nas and women of color, was recognized by The non-pro t found out about the invita- to take one of their videos and post it to You- MassDOT advises the Michelle Obama Foundation. Tube. tion a month and a half ago, after an anony- planning ahead for About 15 students from Lynn’s KIPP Acad- “I think this is an opportunity where we mous person nominated them for the honor, Thanksgiving. A2 emy High School get to join 25 of their fellow said Rodriguez. A representative from the could potentially go national,” said Rodriguez. Chica Project members at Michelle Obama’s former rst lady’s of ce reached out to Rodri- “We have had many people ask us when we Sports “Becoming” book tour on Saturday. The guez and said they recognized the work be- are coming to New York or Miami and I think Lynn celebrates non-pro t, based out of Boston, was one of ing done by The Chica Project and how it is this is the start of the vision for that. This is high school team four organizations in the commonwealth se- impacting its surrounding communities, she captains at luncheon. B1 lected to attend the TD Garden event for free. said. GIRLS, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 41° VOL. 140, ISSUE 280 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 14° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 FOOD ........................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018 OBITUARIES MassDOT advises Sylvia T. Shoer, 95 Charlotte W. Dracousis, 95 1923-2018 1923-2018 planning ahead NORTH HAMPTON, Larry Shoer and Charlotte Walker family, freely sharing N.H. — Sylvia Thelma daughter-in-law Emi- Dracousis passed her life as well as her Shoer, 95, of North ly Rose of Lancaster, away at the age of 95 perspectives, and will for Thanksgiving Hampton, N.H., for- their children, Joseph on the early morning be sorely missed. merly of Swampscott, Shoer and spouse of Nov.

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