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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017 Revere Saugus setting gets its sights ll at on ’17 By Bethany Doane Town FOR THE ITEM REVERE — Online services that will make Meeting local government more accessible was one of the By Gayla Cawley city’s highlights lauded Shedding ITEM STAFF by Mayor Brian Arrigo in his state State of the City SAUGUS — After nearly three Address Monday night at light on the hours of heated debate, Town City Hall. Meeting members on Monday “Online services means approved three zoning bylaw you won’t have to wait in changes that will affect current line at City Hall,” Arrigo library and future land lls. said to a packed room of The Alliance for Health & the more than 100 people. By Thomas Grillo Environment, a coalition of en- Construction of a new ITEM STAFF vironmental organizations and public of cials that request- 31-constituent call center LYNN — Nearly 30 years after vandals is underway, so residents ed the special Town Meeting, tried to make off with a pair of historic can call, text, tweet, email is opposed to the expansion of lights from the library’s entrance, the Re- and Facebook Revere city Wheelabrator Saugus, an ener- naissance-style lamps are back where they staff members to resolve gy-from-waste facility that dis- community issues, he belong. poses up to 1,500 tons of waste said. “The call center will “I’m thrilled and I know the trustees are a day from 10 Massachusetts open new avenues of con- too,” said Theresa Hurley, the library’s di- communities. versations for residents, rector. “The return of the original and beau- With the approval of the three and allow city staff to tiful lights back to the way they were is articles, de nitions will be added collect and analyze data worth celebrating.” to the town’s zoning bylaws for to improve management The saga began in the late 1980s when “ash,” “land ll” and “ash land ll.” thieves attached a chain to the 800-pound practices.” ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE An addition would be made to A new online database light poles and to their pickup truck and the Environmental Performance tracking all Inspectional tried to steal them. They didn’t get far. Po- One of the two newly-restored, Renais- Standards section that restricts Service reports reduced lice stopped the would-be burglars on North sance-style lamps in front of Lynn Public Li- the elevation of a land ll to 50 response times to resident Common Street, near the library. Since brary. Above left shows the lamps when they feet above mean sea level. were installed shortly after the library opened REVERE, A7 LAMPS, A7 in 1900, courtesy of the City of Lynn. SAUGUS, A7 Marblehead reeling in Long Winter Salem State seminar translating into success for small business By Thomas Grillo thought we had reached as high as we The crowd at ITEM STAFF could go,” said Cynthia Schenck, a 2016 the Inner City program graduate and CEO of Lynn- Capital Connec- SALEM — It was standing room based International Medical Interpret- tions seminar at only at the Enterprise Center at Sa- ers of the North Shore. “ICCC changed the Enterprise lem State University on Monday as our lives and changed our business for Center at Salem entrepreneurs packed a conference the better. This week alone, we hired State University COURTESY PHOTO room hoping to learn how to expand four new employees. If you’re thinking on Monday. A look at runners from “Going the Distance,” one their businesses. about starting or growing a business, of the lms in the Long Winter Short Film Festival. North Shore small business owners think about joining ICCC.” attended “Inner City Capital Con- Since its inception in 2005 and with ITEM PHOTO | nections” (ICCC), an informational the generosity of Staples, Dunkin’ OWEN O’ROURKE session that detailed how to access Donuts, Boston Foundation, National a free program that offers a multi- Grid and other rms, Boston-based dimensional approach to growing a ICCC has worked with 1,122 compa- BY BILL BROTHERTON business, including executive educa- nies nationwide, including 837 busi- tion, webinars, coaching and access to nesses that have raised more than capital sources. Film festival begins BUSINESS, A7 tomorrow at Abbot Hall “Until we became participants, we MARBLEHEAD — The Festival of Arts has been a much-anticipated, well-attended part of the town’s July 4 INSIDE weekend celebration since 1962. Each year, the fest presents Mageary to be named visual arts exhibitions, music, writing, boat building, chil- In Salem dren’s activities and, since 1999, lm. A free dose of history One offshoot of the popular holiday tradition is the Long at the House of the police chief in Lynn Winter Short Film Festival, which showcases selected shorts Seven Gables. A2 and highlights from the previous summer’s lm festival. It By Thomas Grillo for the $100,000 a year assign- will be Wednesday night at 7 in the Abbot Public Library’s In Opinion ITEM STAFF ment. The other of cers seeking Loose ends in lower meeting room. the job included Acting Chief Swampscott. A4 LYNN — The city has a new po- Mike Evers, co-chair of the Film Committee, said 11 short lice chief, The Item has learned. Leonard Desmarais and Capts. lms will be screened, including documentaries, comedies, In Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kenne- Mark O’Toole and Michael Vail. animations and personal essay-like re ections. The program Police arrest suspect dy con rmed that Deputy Chief MMA Consulting Group Inc., lasts about 90 minutes, he said. Admission is free. in armed robbery. A6 Michael Mageary will take the a Plymouth-based company, “The committee selected these lms for their uniquely per- post vacated by Kevin Coppinger. provides an Assessment Center sonal qualities,” said Evers, a Beverly resident. “Some are In Sports The mayor said Mageary was comprised of an expert panel Swampscott hockey wins the top scorer in an Assessment FILM FEST, A7 one for a cause. B1 Center review of four candidates CHIEF, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 38° VOL. 139, ISSUE 53 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 37° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017 OBITUARIES MASSACHUSETTS BRIEFS Jeanne M. Welch, 65 Sister Irene Leblanc, 90 Suspect in Massachusetts able Care Act. Republican Gov. Charlie 1951-2017 mall shooting held on Baker on Monday touted $75,000 bail SWAMPSCOTT — Swampscott, her MARLBOROUGH — Sister role at the former Emmanuel his administration’s suc- Jeanne M. (Poulin) daughters; Keelyn Irene Leblanc, a Sister of St. House convent in Wayland. cess in fixing the connec- QUINCY, (AP) — The tor, which was beset by Welch, 65, of Welch of Nahant, Anne, known in religion as Before declining health re- suspect in a shooting at Swampscott, passed Dina Pass and her Sister M. Frederica, died at quired a move to Marie Esther technical problems after a suburban Boston mall Massachusetts switched away peacefully on husband, Thomas the age of 90 at Marie Esther Health Center, she provided that sent shoppers fleeing Saturday, Feb. 4, of Swampscott and Health Center in Marlborough pedicure and other services from the state’s 2006 in panic has been held on health care overhaul to 2017, at the Ka- Katie Bowsfield and on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at St. Anne Convent, Marlbor- $75,000 bail. plan Family Hospice her husband, Eric of in the 71st year of vowed re- ough. the federal law. The Patriot Ledger Officials say the connec- House in Danvers, Arlington, her sister, ligious life. Born in Lynn, she Sister Irene was prede- reports that Michael with her loving family Suzanne Heidebrecht was the eldest of six children ceased by her parents, her tor retained more than 85 Spence Jr. pleaded not percent of its customers by her side. Jeanne was born of Swampscott, her brother, born to Frederic and Alice brother Walter (Sonny) Leb- guilty Monday to charges on July 22, 1951, in Methuen, Edward Poulin and his wife, (Roy) Leblanc. She joined the lanc and her sister Jeanne while enrolling more than including discharging a 50,000 new residents the daughter of the late Lio- Gayle of Nahant, her grand- Sisters of St. Anne in Lachine, (Leblanc) DeFillipo. She will firearm within 500 feet nel Soucy and Sylviane (Bi- son, Thomas Michael Pass Quebec and professed vows in be missed and grieved by her during the open enroll- of a building and carry- ment period that ended envenue). She was raised and granddaughter, Kayla Jean 1945. She held a certification sisters, Eva (Leblanc) Corm- ing a firearm without a in Nahant and educated in Pass and her parents, Mau- and license as a pedicurist ier and Rita Leblanc and her last week. license in connection with More than 65,000 people both Nahant and Lynn. She rice and Sylviane (Bienvenue) and earned teaching certifi- brother, Trappist Brother Chris- the gunfire Friday at the graduated from Lynn English Poulin of Nahant. She was pre- cates from Montreal Universi- tian (Richard) Leblanc, nieces, switched to new plans South Shore Plaza in during open enrollment, High School, Class of 1970. deceased by her son, Michael ty. She earned a B.A. degree nephews, grandnieces and Braintree. She received her associate’s Leo. Several nieces, nephews in Education from Anna Maria grandnephews and the Sisters with many apparently No one was hurt in the seeking to lower their degree in early childhood ed- and cousinsIN MEMORIAM also survive her.