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SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2019 New engines have GE plant ying By Thor Jourgensen success in landing a $143 million initial ITEM STAFF production contract in 2017 to build 22 engines to power a new Marine Corps LYNN — Like an island bathed in sun- heavy-lift helicopter. shine but surrounded by stormy seas, State Rep. Peter Capano retired from General Electric Aviation’s River Works a 29-year career with GE last week and plant is hiring at record levels and shoul- said the T408 production spooling up this dering big aviation contracts even as GE year is just the latest chapter in a River GE engine assem- works its way out of a corporate slide. Works success story written since 2017. bler Paul Tucker Company executives hosted a rib- “The company has hired more than 400 works on a T408 bon-cutting ceremony a month ago to in- people over the last year and a half. The helicopter engine augurate the River Works assembly and last time I heard of that happening was slated for River shipping area for the new T408 helicop- the 1970s,” Capano said. Works production ter engine. starting this year. The ceremony capped off GE Aviation’s GE, A3 What’s the NAHANT SHORES UP local cost DAMAGED SEAWALL of the shutdown? By Bella diGrazia ITEM STAFF Nearly a month into the partial fed- eral government shutdown, 21-year- old Louis Stola of the U.S. Coast Guard is worried about paying the bills. Stola, a Revere resident, works out of the U.S. Coast Guard base in Boston’s North End. He said he received a check on Jan. 1 but is not expecting to get one on Jan. 15. He and his wife Alicia Le- dezma began squirreling away money and buying produce at local food pan- tries to prepare for the lack of pay, he said. “We hope and pray they make the right decisions up there,” said Stola. “We have no control over it. Congress members are getting $10,000 raises and our families are getting nothing.” An estimated 80,000 federal em- ployees have gone without pay, and the strain on the system is starting to show. Travelers are waiting in lon- ger lines as Transportation Security By Bridget Turcotte “The wall is constructed of granite blocks and a Construction on Administration workers call out sick ITEM STAFF lot of the granite blocks were dislodged from the the seawall along during their scheduled shifts. National wave action,” said Barletta. “They are putting Willow Road in parks across the country are covered The rst in a series of projects to repair damage those back in place and rming up the wall itself.” Nahant is the with trash and marred by vandalism. caused by last year’s winter storms is well under- With the wall, repairs are being made to dam- rst in a series And many immigration cases are be- way in Nahant. aged railings and the sidewalk. of projects to x ing postponed, delaying an already In March 2018, a nor’easter left the town in a state “The important thing about that is the work is an estimated $1.6 lengthy process. of emergency for several days. Even after the storm limited to putting it back to what it was before the million worth of Housing ended, much of the town was left underwater. Roads storm,” he said. storm damage That pain is felt outside of courts, remained impassable and the ball elds underwa- The Federal Emergency Management Agency from last year’s parks and airports. The Department ter days later. With the causeway impassable, the will reimburse 75 percent of the overall cost of $1.6 storms. of Housing and Urban Development National Guard stationed a military transportation million, leaving the town with a $400,000 tab, said (HUD), whose funds ran out on Jan. 1, vehicle in town in case an evacuation was required. Barletta. ITEM PHOTO | sent a letter to 1,500 landlords whose Town properties endured an estimated $1.6 mil- The work began in November and is expected to SPENSER HASAK SHUTDOWN, A3 lion in storm damage, said Town Administrator be completed by spring. Tony Barletta. The rst project, repairs to a seawall on Willow Bridget Turcotte can be reached at bturcotte@item- Road, will cost about $300,000, he said. live.com. Follow her on Twitter @BridgetTurcotte. INSIDE College hopefuls making Sports Rally comes up short for Tech girls. B1 the grade in Swampscott Peabody girls basketball By Bella diGrazia coming their way. runs away with win ITEM STAFF “This is a very strong senior class but we over Classical. B1 also start this process very early on,” said Bar- Swampscott High School students are get- num. “The college admission process is like ting an early jump on the college admissions having another class unto itself. It can be very process. stressful and is a very prevalent conversation As of Jan. 10, 153 out of 171 students applied around here. The balance is the biggest chal- to at least one school, according to Emily Zot- lenge and being prepared early on is the best to Barnum, director of the high school’s guid- solution.” ance department. Nearly 55 percent of those Barnum, who has been at the high school for students applied for early action, which allows ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE a decade, said the numbers are very high this them to hear back from colleges before the year, especially with students who applied for Louis Stola talks about how the holidays, and 15 percent applied for early deci- early action. In recent years the average was government shutdown is affect- sion, which has them committed to a school by ing him and his family. December, regardless of the nancial package SWAMPSCOTT, A3 Health aide charged with assaulting 90-year-old in Peabody PEABODY — A live-in home health and re ghters responded to 59 Lynn- uence of something” and the defendant Investigators found empty bottles of li- aide was arraigned Friday in Peabody eld St. on Thursday following a Lifeline allegedly became angry. quor in the defendant’s room. District Court for an assault on her medical alert and a 911 call in which an When the victim tried to call her Investigators also determined the 90-year-old client. elderly woman could be heard screaming daughter, the defendant took the phone defendant is an employee of Connecti- Sophonie Fidele, 27, faces charges of as- for help. out of her hand, police said. When she cut-based Family Care Plus and had sault and battery on a person over 60 and First responders found the victim and tried to activate her Lifeline bracelet, been placed as a live-in aide at the Pea- witness intimidation. the defendant at home. The initial inves- the defendant allegedly grabbed her body address. Essex Assistant District Attorney Mi- tigation revealed the victim confronted wrist and removed it, according to court A call to the agency was not immediate- chael Varone told the court that police the defendant about being “under the in- documents. ly returned. OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 30° VOL. 141, ISSUE 30 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 16° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2019 OBITUARIES Verna Bloom, of Federal workers rally to ‘Last Temptation of demand end to shutdown Christ,’ dies at 80 By Alanna Durkin Richer BAR HARBOR, Maine with fraternity president ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) — Verna Bloom, the “Otter” Stratton. actress who portrayed the She was Clint East- BOSTON — Federal wife of the dean in the wood’s lover in “High workers who aren’t get- movie “Animal House,” Plains Drifter” and was ting paychecks amid the has died. She was 80. Mary in “The Last Temp- lingering government shutdown rallied in Bos- Family spokesman Mike tation of Christ.” Kaplan tells The Holly- ton Friday to call on Pres- Bloom was born in Lynn wood Reporter that Bloom ident Donald Trump to died Wednesday in Bar and graduated from Bos- drop his demand for fund- Harbor, Maine, of compli- ton University in 1959. ing for a wall on the south- cations from dementia. She is survived by her ern U.S. border. In the 1978 John Landis husband, former film critic Furloughed workers film, Bloom played Marion and two-time Oscar-nomi- carrying signs with mes- Wormer, who flirted with nated screenwriter Jack sages such as “Don’t Wall and had a drunken romp Cocks, and a son. Feds Out” chanted “Let us serve” and “We want to work” in the frigid cold as NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS others described the toll the three-week impasse is Baker pocket vetoes on the rare coin Thursday beginning to have on their ban on some night. Only 10 to 15 of families. these pennies, mistakenly U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, flame-retardant chemicals minted in bronze instead who joined the workers, of steel, are believed to BOSTON (AP) — Gov. accused the Republican exist. They were made at Charlie Baker has pocket president of using feder- a time when bronze and vetoed a bill that would al workers as “hostages” copper were being saved ban flame retardant and “pawns” in a politi- to fill metal shortages chemicals from being cal game and said he will during World War II. used in a variety of forgo his Senate paycheck The auction house says household products. until all federal workers Don Lutes, of Pittsfield, In a letter sent to get paid.