SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2021 Raining Lynn lends discounts Peabody in Lynn a hand on By Allysha Dunnigan vaccines ITEM STAFF By Anne Marie Tobin LYNN — The Great Amer- ITEM STAFF ican Rain Barrel Company PEABODY — As The Beatles (TGARB) is teaming up once sang, sometimes, you get with the city’s Department by with a little help from (your) of Public Works (DPW) to friends. create a Lynn 2021 Rain Just ask Peabody Director of Barrel program, offering Health and Human Services residents rain barrels at a Sharon Cameron. discounted price of $69, un- This week, Cameron was pre- til April 1. paring for the city’s 12th vaccine Rain barrels can be used clinic, this one to administer sec- for outdoor water use, such ond doses to about 105 residents, as washing cars, lling up most of them congregate care and the pool, gardening and shelter residents and staff with a washing off porches and pa- few health care workers and rst tios. They are an energy-re- responders sprinkled in. ducing source that also When Cameron learned the saves money while being week’s vaccine delivery was de- environmentally conscien- ITEM PHOTO |SPENSER HASAK layed due to adverse weather tious. In an effort to allow restaurants more space for outdoor dining amid the pandemic, throughout much of the country, “We are encouraging res- Swampscott shifted the double yellow line along Humphrey Street over the summer to she reached out to the city of idents to use rain barrels allow curbside dining. because they help the city Lynn, asking if it could come to manage its water resources the rescue. by reducing runoff, lowering It did, sending Peabody 100 municipal water demands, Double vision is annoying doses of the vaccine. saving energy at treatment “Usually we get noti ed on plants, and improving res- Monday night that doses are idential storm manage- to drivers in Swampscott being shipped out for overnight ment,” said Lisa Nerich, delivery. When we didn’t receive that noti cation we reached out DPW associate commission- By Tréa Lavery the original lines were covered ever, it is unclear whether that er. “Rain barrels provide to Lynn Board of Health on Tues- ITEM STAFF in blackout paint, which keeps will happen soon, because the homeowners with a supple- day to see if they would lend us them from showing up and con- town hasn’t yet decided if the mental water supply during doses for our Wednesday clin- SWAMPSCOTT — To accom- fusing drivers. However, over periods of drought. Home- lane shift will become perma- ic,” Cameron said. “Thankfully, modate more outdoor dining months, that paint has rubbed owners who use rain barrels nent. Lynn allowed us to borrow those over the summer, the double off, making the lines visible have decreased their water “The only reason I’m waiting doses, which will be returned to yellow line that runs along the once again and re ecting light bills up to 40 percent. It’s to do it permanently is that I’m Lynn.” center of Humphrey Street be- at night. a win-win for the town and not sure what the Select Board The clinic was a success, with tween Redington Street and Gino Cresta, director of the wants to do next year for out- 105 people receiving second the homeowner.” Fuller Terrace was shifted a few The pandemic brought on town’s Department of Public door dining,” Cresta said. shots. Leftover doses were ad- feet. a wave of gardeners, as well Works, said that to x the lines, Cresta said that so far, the ministered to elderly residents Now, that well-intentioned de- as the trending victory gar- the town would need to mill lane shift hasn’t been a safe- living at the Peabody Housing cision is causing issues on the dens and outdoor activities. down the road between one- ty issue, and has not gotten in Authority. As of Friday, 1,197 road. eighth and one-quarter of an people have been inoculated in RAINING, A3 After new lines were painted, inch to remove the paint. How- DRIVERS, A3 Peabody. Lynn Public Health Director Michele Desmarais said she was happy to be in a position to help out Peabody. Salem State receives “During these dif cult and challenging times, it is very im- portant to me to help my fellow $6M to help seniors health director,” Desmarais said. “Fortunately, you have to reg- By Guthrie Scrimgeour Commonwealth’s nine state univer- ister for appointments and we ITEM STAFF sities. know ahead of time how many Salem State plans to use most of people will get the vaccine, so we SALEM — A $6 million gift from the funds, or $5 million, to estab- knew that loaning Peabody 100 Salem State University alumna lish the Viking Completion Grant doses was not going to affect my Kim Gassett-Schiller and her hus- Endowment, which will launch this responsibility to the residents of Lynn.” band, Philip Schiller, will be used to year and bene t 50 to 75 undergrad- Cameron said Thursday’s assist seniors in overcoming their uate students every year in perpe- nal nancial hurtle before gradu- statewide coronavirus vaccine tuity. ation. website crash had a ripple effect The endowment is aimed at The donation represents the larg- in Peabody. est cash gift ever made to one of the SALEM STATE, A2 VACCINE, A2 Saugus Health Department to offer ITEM PHOTO |SPENSER HASAK Kristen Reed, a registered nurse and holistic COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents health coach, meditates in the backyard of her Lynn eld home. By Elyse Carmosino ceived very limited doses residents to call the Sau- is asking for everyone’s ITEM STAFF of the vaccine and is mak- gus Health Department patience during this local ing an effort to administer to schedule a vaccine ap- process,” said Crabtree. All is well for SAUGUS — The Sau- them to the town’s high pointment. “There are a very limited gus Health Department risk populations as soon Residents will need amount of vaccines avail- will offer opportunities for as possible. proof of Saugus residency able at the town level residents to receive the However, because the and other eligibility when and you are encouraged COVID-19 Moderna vac- Reed in Lynn eld health department has an appointment is sched- to schedule through the cine, Town Manager Scott not yet been provided ac- uled. Health department state vaccine site.” Crabtree announced on By Elyse Carmosino cess to the state’s online staff will take each per- Saugus residents cur- ITEM STAFF Friday. scheduling vendor soft- son’s information and call rently have several op- In a statement provid- ware that the town was them back with a date, LYNNFIELD — For Kristen Reed, holistic improve- portunities to receive the ed by the town manager’s initially promised for res- time, and place for ap- vaccine through limited ment of someone’s health works by improving every of ce, Crabtree said the idents, Crabtree said the pointment. part of their life. health department has re- town’s process will require “The health department “I’ve always been into the idea of integrative, proac- COVID-19, A3 tive healthcare where we’re integrating all different components of healing modalities and really seeing patients and people as the whole person and not just their disease or their surgery — really taking a look INSIDE at the entire body and systems,” Reed said. “When I came to Boston, I really started to hone in on that Opinion and became even more passionate about it.” Shribman: Whither She began to work on holistic nursing initiatives for patients and staff within her unit, going on to receive go the unsettled her board certi cation in holistic nursing with the in- Republicans? A4 tention of creating a wellness program for Brigham and Women’s. LOOK! Called Wellness Days, the program was originally Marblehead Chamber held in a room at the hospital where staff was offered access to multiple healing modalities, including mu- of Commerce sic, aromatherapy, and massages. hosts virtual coffee A nurse for more than a decade, Reed started her hours. A8 REED, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 34° VOL. 142, ISSUE 63 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-2 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 21° POLICE/FIRE .............................A5 COMICS ....................................B4 REAL ESTATE .............................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2021 OBITUARIES Barbara L. Caristo, 83 Lynn, Peabody, Revere and 1937 - 2021 LYNN - Barbara Caristo (née Dell), age 83, of Lynn, Massa- Saugus stay red for virus chusetts, passed away on Feb- ruary 14, 2021 from compli- By Gayla Cawley test rate is still more than In Revere, 23 new cas- New cases were also re- cations due to COVID-19 and ITEM STAFF 2.5 times higher than the es were reported to bring ported in Lynn eld, Nah- Parkinson’s Disease. state average, it contin- its caseload to 9,409. The ant, and Salem on Friday, She is survived by her son New coronavirus cases ued to drop this week. The city’s death toll is 146, were reported in Lynn, but numbers were not up- Raymond Howell and his wife positive test rate in Lynn according to the city web- dated in Marblehead or Peabody, Revere, and Sau- declined from 8.19 to 6.89 site. The DPH reported a Maria Farrah Howell, and their Swampscott. children Isabel, Sam, and Ava gus on Friday, which are percent this week, and its decline in the positive and of Newton; her son Daniel all in the red for another daily incidence rate also daily incidence rates in Lynn eld (981 cases, 29 Howell and his wife Paula of week.